OXFORD
A history of Oxford University by the academic and folklorist.
A history of Oxford University by the academic and folklorist.
First edition of this collection of historical mysteries, including a chapter on the "Shakespeare-Bacon Imbroglio."
Beautiful late 17th-century edition of a central primary source in the conquest of the Americas, bound somewhat incongruously with an early edition of French buccaneer Montaubon's 1695 voyage to the Caribbean.
First edition of this Broadside Press publication on a practical pan-African movement, "part of the specifically useful methodology of Liberation being created all over the Afrikan world by Afrikan revolutionaries" (Amiri Baraka, rear panel).
First edition in English of this uncommon survey of occult knowledge by an Austrian journalist, anthroposophist, and theater critic.
First printing of this beautifully illustrated history of the Blackfeet people, as told by the Montanan ethnographer and Native ally.
First edition of the final African journals of Scottish missionary, abolitionist, and explorer David Livingstone, including his own account of the famous meeting with Stanley.
Beautifully preserved mid-19th century French portable reading and writing kit that mimics the shape of a leather-bound book.
Victorian edition of this important survey of Norse literature and history – with a fore-edge painting of a Viking ship, a color frontispiece of Yggdrasil, and an excerpt from the PROSE EDDA.
First edition of this brief publication dedicated to a select number of Germans fallen in World War II, accompanied by an original signed woodcut by Gerhard Marcks.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
First US edition of this in-depth history of chemistry's beginnings as a science, from classical antiquity through medieval alchemy and on through the 17th century. Part of the Watts History of Science Library series.
Uncommon first printing of this documentary film in book form, the story of the Nazi occupation of France and the Vichy government's collaboration with them, told through various interviews.
Prescott's most popular title, identified as his "masterpiece" by biographers, which had a strong impact on the study of Mesoamerica (Gardiner).
First edition of this first-hand account of Henry M. Stanley's years traveling the Congo in the service of the colonial aspirations of Belgium.
Later edition of this description of the disastrous Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, as told by its leader Henry M. Stanley.
Uncommon University Books edition of Montague Summers's second great monograph on the Vampire, its several European cousins, and assorted dark acquaintances.
Inscribed first edition of this collection of caricatures of leaders and people of the Axis Powers in WWII, by a Jewish Polish artist.
Calendar of the Jewish year 5703 (1942-43), issued by the Synagogue of Turin for the period in which that synagogue would be destroyed by Allied bombardment.
First edition of the first handbook printed for the police force governed by London's Court of Aldermen, 5 years before the Metropolitan Police Act that formed the Scotland Yard.
First edition of this eye-catching accordion book chronicling major events in Japanese history from 1844 to 1882, particularly focused on events of international import or sensational news.
Inscribed first edition of this investigation of the technical failures aboard the TITANIC, published only months after the sinking by the then-editor-in-chief of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
First editions of both parts of this proto-graphic novel memoir, the reflections of an antifascist Japanese artist in the years leading up to World War II.